Now what’s interesting is the surveyor’s claim that money does not make happiness. Now that may or not be true, but it’s also a safe bet to say that poverty certainly does not bring happiness either – none of the 10 most happy countries are poor (Puerto Ricans had a GDP per capita of US$19,600 in 2007; and although Colombia only had a GDP per capita of US$7,565 the country is still far from poor.

So what about religion? Shouldn’t that make people happier? I mean a guaranteed after-life should come as some comfort to the believers shouldn’t it? And as for the skeptics, well shouldn’t they be a tad unhappy knowing that they face a never-ending void of infinite blackness for the rest of eternity after they shuffle off their mortal coil?